Posts Tagged ‘Cool Hunting’

Hindsight Links for Mar 25, 6:00 am

// March 25th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • In Singapore, a Failure to Fail, Scott Anthony @ HBR.org:
    Singapore, although far from Silicon Valley, has a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, and I’ve been impressed by passion and talent of…
  • The Tempting of Rajat Gupta, Walter Kiechel @ HBR.org:
    As anyone with the slightest interest in the consulting business knows by now, the SEC has brought civil charges against…
  • Fable, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    Set against monochrome backgrounds, painter Edward del Rosario’s fairytale-like scenes depict people counterposed with nature in charmingly unsettling ways. The Brooklyn-based artist has been exploring the subject for the past eight years, each piece adding to a larger meta-narrative that explores the “aftermath of a post-colonial world.” His latest…
  • On the New York Times Paywall, Eh, Team @ HBR.org:
    Being an online media consumer in Canada is a lot like living your life with your nose pressed up against…
  • Histoire du Soldat, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    Meant to be “played, danced and read,” one of Igor Stravinsky’s most ambitious pieces, “Histoire du Soldat”—penned in the frenzy of post-World War I reconstruction—delves into themes of chaos and absurdity. Tackling the powerful message and Stravinsky’s dissonant, pastiched style, director and choreographer Yara Travieso and illustrator Ryan Hartley…

Hindsight Links for Mar 18, 6:00 am

// March 18th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation, Team @ HBR.org:
    A big insurance company I know of wants to design a radical new future, so they have committed significant resources…
  • Open thread: What data do you want to see visualized?, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
    There is so much data available and new data released every day, but not all of it is that interesting. Some is spotty and some doesn’t make sense. However, there is also a lot of exciting data to play with. Have you come across any datasets or sources that you …
  • Colé, Paolo Ferrarini @ Cool Hunting:
    With strong roots in the Milanese tradition of furniture-making, the new design firm Colé will debut at the coming 2011 Design Week, bringing with it a modern take on usefulness in design. The thinking behind the brand draws on the industry experience of Matteo De Ponti (brand manager of…
  • Twitter Locks Down, Ending Its Reign as the Next Big Thing, Team @ HBR.org:
    When we started building online communities six years ago, we told our early clients that they had a limited window…
  • Why I’m Glad I Got Fired, Team @ HBR.org:
    I came to be an expert on collaboration because Carol Bartz both hired me and fired me — within 18…

Hindsight Links for Mar 4, 6:00 am

// March 4th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Sleep is More Important than Food, Tony Schwartz @ HBR.org:
    Let’s cut to the chase. Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for…
  • The Three Networks You Need, Team @ HBR.org:
    We all know how important networks are in all the different parts of our lives: medical and health, financial and…
  • Should You Hire an Overqualified Candidate?, Team @ HBR.org:
    As politicians and economists puzzle over America’s jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how…
  • Draplin Design Company, Adrienne So @ Cool Hunting:
    Portland, OR-based designer Aaron Draplin is the upshot of a stubborn dedication to chasing dreams. A role model for anyone with uncompromising passion who refuses to let social norms interfere with their goals, Draplin started his current career path from very humble beginnings—with a single graphic for the company…
  • The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO, R “Ray” Wang @ HBR.org:
    Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving…

Hindsight Links for Feb 25, 6:00 am

// February 25th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • True size of Vatican City, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:True Size vatican

    We saw the true size of Africa, relative to the world’s largest countries, by Kai Krause last year. Taking it in the other direction, xefer shows the true size of Vatican City, world’s smallest state, with an area of approximately 110 acres. That’s just big enough to house a handful …

  • An atomic theory of business size, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    The magic of the periodic table is that every atom is one thing or another–there isn’t a stable element that’s sort of oxygen and sort of nitrogen. If there were, there would be millions of elements, not a few hundred….
  • Wow, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I came upstairs to my office at 5:15am this morning with a simple plan. I was going to read through the comments to yesterdays post and select one and write a blog post. 5am to 7am is my writing/thinking time….
  • Design Indaba: Pecha Kucha, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    From the seven recent design graduates highlighted for their distinct talents at Cape Town’s Design Indaba conference on creativity, three particularly stand out for their innovative viewpoint and compelling demonstrations. While the others—Camille Blin, Dirk Van Der Kooij, Lindsay Kinkade and Christine Goudie—all presented well-founded concepts in their respective fields,…
  • Gibbon Slacklines, Evan Orensten @ Cool Hunting:
    From its origins in the 1970s—when it was used by climbers for practising their moves in parking lots and eventually to bypass terrain that was hard to climb across—Slacklines have more recently also become a great training tool to strengthen your core and improve your balance or just fun…

Hindsight Links for Feb 18, 6:00 am

// February 18th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Super Priority Inbox, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I love gmail priority inbox. I can’t imagine doing email in an email client that doesn’t have this feature. For those who are not familiar with priority inbox, it’s a feature that splits the gmail inbox into three sections. The…
  • The Essence of a Great Presentation, Team @ HBR.org:
    [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Last week, I played the piano for my friend Macy Robison’s cabaret-style recital…
  • Help Employees Listen When They Don’t Want to Hear, Team @ HBR.org:
    [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a lack of good communication…
  • Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    Among the many new exciting games and oddities at the 2011 Toy Fair, Activision’s latest gaming experience for the Nintendo Wii stood out for its fresh take on role-playing games. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure is action-packed entertainment that lets player interaction cross between the game and real worlds. The game…
  • Solowheel, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    Like a stripped-down Segway, Inventist’s new Solowheel is geared for the mobile urbanite. The “self-balancing electric unicycle” operates through gyroscopic technology, which a 1000-watt rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers. On a full charge (which takes about 45 minutes), the Solowheel lasts two hours—but the battery actually recaptures energy when going…

Hindsight Links for Feb 11, 6:00 am

// February 11th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Wonderwall Archives 01, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    From A.P.C.’s bungalow-style boutique in Tokyo to Hong Kong’s freezer-like Ice Cream store, Wonderwall, the interior design firm founded in 2000 by Masamichi Katayama, has made its name by creating a diverse range of spaces throughout Asia, the U.S….
  • Welcome to the Age of Dilemma, Umair Haque @ HBR.org:
    Another week, another potentially destabilizing global mini-crisis. This time, it’s (yet another) global food crisis: food prices are set to…
  • Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy, Team @ HBR.org:
    Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox, Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short…
  • The Power of the Right Question, Team @ HBR.org:
    I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with…
  • Matt Shlian, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    As teacher, paper engineer and artist Matt Shlian explains on his site, “researchers see paper engineering as a metaphor for scientific principals; I see their inquiry as basis for artistic inspiration.” His geometric sculptures elegantly reflect this strong connection to the education and scientific communities, exploring the physicality of…

Hindsight Links for Feb 4, 6:00 am

// February 4th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia, Scott Anthony @ HBR.org:
    “Asia Fueling Global Innovation.” That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day…
  • Yoga-Paws, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    While shooting a yoga video at a cattle ranch in the Southwest, Jamie Getzwiller realized her colleagues were unable to maintain proper posture on the Navajo rugs they were using. The upshot was Yoga-Paws, fingerless gloves that allow you to get your downward dog on anywhere, on any surface….
  • To Be a Better Boss, Know Your Default Settings, Team @ HBR.org:
    Every day as managers and leaders, we bring ourselves to the job. We bring who we are as people, our…
  • Companies Can Help Customers Harvest Low-Hanging Fruit, Andrew McAfee @ HBR.org:
    I travel a lot, baseball season starts soon, and the Red Sox are going to be fun to watch this…
  • Laura Ashley for People Tree, Laura Neilson @ Cool Hunting:
    Led by ’90s revivalism, a particular floral trend has proliferated on runways these past few seasons, many directly inspired by the fabrics of heritage brand Laura Ashley and its English garden-feeling flower prints. Thanks to a collaboration with fellow U.K. clothing label People Tree, the 57-year-old label is undergoing…
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